No less than five packages arrived in the mail today!  You should have seen Liberty’s face. 😃  Plus, she is finally feeling well enough to start opening packages from earlier this week.  It looks like our room exploded!

Then a wonderful friend arrived with a vehicle full of more packages from our homeschool co-op, and even more importantly, with a H-U-G for me. 💖

I can’t even describe to you what the feeling is of all that love arriving in one day, plus the love from earlier this week.  Liberty commented, “Mom, do you think giving gifts to people you love who are in a situation you can’t control can be a coping mechanism?”  (Can you tell the psychologist has been stopping by to chat with her the last couple days?  Haha!) 

I hope you all don’t mind, but one of Liberty’s favorite things is to give to other people.  So she invited our nurse into our explosion of a room, and asked her to take multiple items to distribute to patients all over the unit.  Now your love has overflowed into other rooms as well!  And you filled Liberty’s love tank by allowing her to be able to give!  Double coolness!

They have to be extremely cautious about not passing germs to other immune compromised patients, so there were many hoops to jump through about the packages.  We figured out that if we asked our nurse to open the gifts and boxes, then she could distribute, but if we opened anything ourselves, we couldn’t give it away. So our nurse became our official gift opener and item describer.  It was so much fun!

 One of the things about living on this floor of the hospital is that it gives you perspective and humility.  This is the heart unit.  Many kids have been living here for months waiting on the hope of a heart transplant.  We haven’t been able to meet most of them due to germ restrictions, but their names are on their doors, and we can wave to them through the glass.  Please pray for these kids. ❤️